| HAGUE | Capital of the Netherlands' South Holland |
| DELFT | A city in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands known for the production of a tin-glazed earthenware (5) |
| AMSTERDAM | The capital of the Netherlands; title of a novel by Ian McEwan; or, with "Old", a brand of mature Gouda (9) |
| CADENCE | Beat the bounder upsetting the EEC meeting around the capital of the Netherlands (7) |
| DORDRECHT | Southernmost city of the Dutch province of South Holland, on a river island southeast of Rotterdam (9) |
| WILLEMSTAD | Capital of the Netherlands Antilles (10) |
| GUILDER | Former capital of the Netherlands? (7) |
| THEHAGUE | De facto capital of the Netherlands (3,5) |
| HOOK | The -- of Holland, a cape on the south-west coast of the Netherlands (4) |
| LEIDEN | City on the Rhine in South Holland, its university was established in the 16th century |
| CROWLAND | Town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire with a ruined medieval abbey and a 14th-century three-sided bridge |
| GOUDA | Mild, creamy, semi-hard, cow's-milk cheese originating in the Dutch province of South Holland (5) |
| SCHIEDAM | Port in South Holland, Netherlands, noted for its gin distilleries |
| MAASTRICHT | Capital of the Limburg province of the Netherlands |
| ARUBA | One of the countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| DIARY | Anne Frank's journal of her life in hiding during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, The ... Of A Y |
| TULIP | With the worlds largest permanent display at the Keukenhof and used to symbolise perfect or deep love, the national flower of the Netherlands (5) |
| ORANGE | The royal family of the Netherlands is the House of - (6) |
| UTRECHT | Central region of the Netherlands bordered in the south by the Rhine (7) |
| SABA | The 'Unspoiled Queen' of the Caribbean, forming an island territory of the Netherlands (4) |
